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Commander of master of any ship" includes any person for the time being in command or charge of the same:
Short voyage
means any voyage to any port in British North Boruco, Borneo, Laban, Brunei, Sarawak, or Siam er in any place which may be declared by the Governor-in-Council to be a place to which the provisions of this Ordinance relating to short voyages shall apply: "Long voyage means any voyage of more than seven days duration within the meaning of the Act but not exceeding thirty days duration : "Extended voyage means any voyage of more than thirty days duration within the meaning of the Act.
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3. Any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship clear- Definition of ing out or proceeding to on any voyage to auy voyage. port for the purpose of commencing at or from such port any short, long or extended voyage shall be deemed to have cleared out or proceeded to sea upon the said last mentioned voyage from the Colony or from a port in China or within one indred miles of the const thereof, as the case may be.
4-(1.) The Harbour Master shall be the Emigration Legislation Officer in this Colony for the purpose of sections 4 and 6 authorised
of the Act.
(2.) The provisions of this Ordinance respecting ships sad the treatment of passengers while at son are hereby substituted for the regulations contained in Schedule (A) to the Act and shall be deemed to be regulations made under section 2 of the Act.
by the Act,
(3.) The form contained in the First Schedule to this First Ordinance shall be substituted for the form of certificate Schedale. contained in Schedule B to the Act.
(4.) The form contained in the Second Schedule to this Second Ordinance shall be substituted for the form contained in Schedule. Schedule C to the Act.
5. The voyages specified in the Tenth Schedule to Specification this Ordinance are hereby declared to be voyages of not of voyages of more than thirty days duration,
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than thirty
days duration. Tenth Schedule.
6.-(1.) Save as is provided in sub-section (2) of this Saving of section nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to pas engers right of who are natives of Asia travelling or about to travel in the Asiatic frst class of any vessel which is provided with a general passengers to licence, on the same terms as non-Asiatic passengers, or in the first or second class, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
(2.) Such passengers shall, however, in cases where other Asiatic passengers are carried, be reckoned in calcu- lating the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.
PART II.
Emigrant Ships and British Emigrant Ships.
travel in first or second
class as other nationalities.
7. The master of every ship arriving within the waters Report to of the Cotomy with or intended for carrying from the migration Colony more than twenty Asiatic emigrante shall, within Officer of twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration arrival of emigrant Officer; and in case he neglects to do so, he shall be liable ship. on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six
months.
8. No emigrant ship or British emigrant ship shall Certificate. clear out or proceed to sca on any short, long or extended
voyage without a certificate from the Emigration Officer
in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Or- dinance.
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9. The owners or charterers of every such ship about to Notice. proceed ou any such voyage, or, if they are absent, their respective agents, shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the conveyance of emigrants, give notice in writing of the fact to the Emigration Officer specifying in such notice the name, destination, and probable time of departure of such ship.
10.-1.) In every emigrant ship or British emigrant Require- ship about to procced on any short or long voyage, there ments as shall be a sufficient space properly divided off and located to hospital. to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of accommo clearance, to be used exclusively as a hospital and shall
in no case be of less dimensions thau eighteen clear super- ficial feet for every fifty passengers whom the ship carries.
(2.) Every snel hospital shall be fitted with bed places
and supplied with proper beds, bedding and utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clear- ance, and shall throughout the voyage he kept so fitted and supplied.
(3.) In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to he carried in any such ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.
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(4.) No such ship shall clear out or proceed to seu on Medical any short, long or extended royage, until the proper examination medical officer bas certified to the Emigration Officer, and before sail- the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless ing. he is satisfied, that noue of the passungers or crew appear,
by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.
(5.) A modical inspection of the passengers for the pur- poses of giving such certificate shall take place sither ou board the ship, or, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
(6.) The master, owner, or charterer of the ship shail pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of Bity dollars for every hundred persons so examined.
11. No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any Prohibition such voyage and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the of Asiatic certificate unless the master of such ship is provided with emigrant a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public ship proceed.
ing to sea seal of the Colony or under the hand and seal of an without Emigration Officer, to be obtained in manuer hereinafter licence. mentioned.
12. Whenever any emigrant ship is about to proceed to Time and soa from the Colony on any such voyage the owners or mode of ap charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, their tication for licence in the respective agents, shall, before such ship is laid on for the Colony. conveyance of Asiatic emigrants apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary for a leence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony for the con- veyance of such emigrants, and shall furnish all particulars, according to the form in the Third Schedule to this Third Ordinance, as to the destination of the said ship and as to Schedule. all other matters relating to the intended voyage and emi- gration which may be required of them.
13. Whenever any British emigrant ship, which is not Time and provided with a licence covering her intended voyage, is mode of about to proceed with Asiatic emigrants from any port in application China, or within one hundred miles of the const there, for licence at
the Colony. of, ou any short or long voyage, the owners or char- port out of rerers of such ship, or, if absent, then respective agents, shall, before such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Asiatic emigrants apply in writing to the Emigration Offi- cer at such port for a licence under his hand and seal for the conveyance of such emigrants on the intended voyage only, and shall furnish all particulars, according to the forin in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance, as to the Third destination of The said ship and as to all other matters re- Schedule. lating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required of them.
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